, 1887-04-03
SPARKS R THE WIRES.

The pension bureau issued TO-, 313 pen
sion certificates during the month of
March.
A ,,derelict sailing vessel is reported
drifting about the mouth of the gulf of
st, Lawrence.
A half interest in the noted trotter
Harry Wilkes was sold Yesterday at
San Francisco for $l2, 900.
Rumors of a serious outbreak in Bull
garia have been received at Bucharest.
Two regiments are said to be IN open re-
volt.
For several days past from eighty to
a hundred cars, laden with California pro-
ducts, have left San Francisco daily for the
East.
An unclaimed corpse forwarded by ex-
press from Cincinnati to a fictitious adj
dress, has given rise to a ghastly sensa-
ton at st. Thomas, Ont.
1t is reported from San Francisco that
the much spoken of and much wanted
VIM. Kissane is the rich land owner, VIM.
K. Rogers, of Sonoma county, California.
DR.. James Hodges. convicted of hay
ing exploded a bomb al the Grand opera
house during the Patti concert at San
Francisco, was sentenced yesterday to
two years at hard labor.
John Talbot, the burglar who robbed
Jones's dry goods store in Brooklyn and
also stole $780, 900 in bonds from A. H.
Miller, of Philadelphia, has been nut on
trial in the former city.
Three of the persons implicated in the
recent attempt TO assassinate the emperor
of Russia have already been hanged, and
twenty others, suspected as accomplices,
have been imprisoned.
The report of ex-Secretary Manning's
desperate state of health is denied on the
authority of ex-Treasurer Jordan, who
cables that Manning hasgreatly improved
since his arrival in England.
Clarke, the New York post office thief,
has confessed to having stolen &c., 900
from a registered package several years
ago, and admits that he i. interested in a
gambling house in New York city.
An Episcopal church at Newburyport,
Mass, was burglarized night before last
and communion plate worth several hun
dred dollars stolen. One piece was of
historical value, having been presented to
the church in 1894 by King William.
A steamer has been dispatched from
st. Johns, N. F., to the relief of the crew
of the Eagle, or any survivors Of them,
reported as recently wrecked in Bonaven-
ture bay. The crew numbered 275, and
hopes are entertained that some of them
may yet be saved.
Stanton, the Detroit defaulter, who has
disappeared with $2S, 900 OF other peo-
pies money, is a member of the firm
from which he embezzled, and is there
fore by a technically free from any charge
more serions than that of having over
drawn his account.
A race has been arranged between
Oliver Iselin's yacht Titania, shortly to
be launched, and the Bedouin, a cutter
belonging to Archibald Rogers. The prize
is to be n silver pint pot filled with gold
dollars, and the race is expected to occur
in June outside of Sandy Hook.
Famine prevails in Alascosa county,
in Southwest Texas, to such an extent
that the only food to be obtained by the
sufferers consists of the carcasses of cat
tie which have persisted of starvation. An
appeal has been made to the state legis-
legislature for help, upon a sworn state
ment Of the facts. The distress is the re-
suit of drouth and the consequent failure
of crops.
The Del Monte hotel, Il popular sea-
side resort at Monterey, Cal. was de-
stroyed by fire at an early hour yesterday
morning. Some three hundred guests eff
fected a hurried escape in their night
clothes, but no lives were lost. The
building belonged to the Southern Pacific
Railroad company and cost 1850, 900. 1t
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